King of the Children (1987)

Release Date: 1987-05-01
Runtime: 1h 47min
Production Company: Xi'an Film Studio
Production Country: China
Director: Chen Kaige

An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings.